Quotes About Music

I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I was always into bluegrass as a kid. Basically, I like music that has a basic simple structure and that has a lot of emotion and feel. Bluegrass and other old time music fits the bill, as well as what became punk - they both kind of have a similar framework.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he'd make a different one for the music.

See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and gave rock n' roll a much more complex structure. It made it possible to play more than three chords.

I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.

If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.

Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements.

Einstein was very attracted to Mozart. There's a mathematical, classical structure to the music, and I think he identified with that very strongly. I think there also is a connection between being a genius and a polymath.

I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure.

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.

We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.